STATE HOUSING PROGRAMME

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27666, 24 May 1955, Page 15

STATE HOUSING PROGRAMME

Christchurch Target 1500 This Year LESLIE BLOCK NEXT AREA FOR DEVELOPMENT More land is required by the Housing Division of the Ministry of Works in and around Christchurch on which to build the district’s quota of houses for this year. Of the target of 17,000 houses to be built throughout the Dominion in the next two years under departmental direction, the Christchurch district quota is 1500 for this year and 2000 for 1956. Most of the houses, about 90 per cent, of them, will be built under the group housing scheme by individual builders, and the remainder will be built for State rental. The next area to be developed would be the Leslie block at Hornby, the district superintendent of the division (Mr H. S. Sherbrooke) said yesterday. The block would provide for 500 houses, and the project required the provision of water supply and sewerage. A start was expected to be made this year. Fifty State houses were completed or under construction at Hornby, Mr Sherbrooke said, and sections for 180 units had been set aside for group building. At Dallington 47 units had been let, and that completed letting in the area. Twenty-three units were still under construction by the division and about 50 under group building. On the Tuckers road block 40 State houses had been sited, and on the Bishops road block 19 remained to complete the block of nearly 200.